Re: Why not clone to a remote directory over SSH

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Nov 24, 2005, 00:51 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511231645100.13959@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511240038001.11106@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > 	$ ssh machine 'git clone '`hostname`:`pwd`' /path/to/new/repository'
> 
> Obviously, this only works if the other side can connect to this side via 
> ssh. Hmm. Firewalls? Disabled sshd? `hostname` not reliably returning a 
> valid address for the remote side?

Well, you could also just script it and just do

	ssh machine 'mkdir -p /path/to/new/repository ;
		cd /path/to/new/repo;
		git-init-db'
	git push --all machine:/path/to/new/repository
	ssh machine 'cd /path/to/new/repo ; git checkout'

(and yes, we could obviously make this a "git-create-repo" command, and then you could do

	git-send-pack --exec=git-create-repo \
		machine:/path/to/new/repository
		$(git-rev-parse --all)

or something like that).

		Linus